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Content published on culture360.org is widely shared by our users via email, Facebook, Twitter and other social media. With an active culture360.org community, we like to track what content users interact with. So every year we analyse patterns of information sharing to see what we can learn. culture360.org Editor, Judith Staines, reports on the findings […] More

The culture360.org correspondent Veerangana Solanki was in Kochi, India for the opening of the first ever Biennale in the country. She interviews here the initiators and curators Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu on the success of this first edition. More

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship in 2013–2014 at this post-graduate centre for production, research and exchange, located in Innsbruck in the Austrian Tyrol. Candidates can apply for one semester (September 30, 2013 – February 14, 2014 or February 17, 2014 – June 27, […] More

Planting Rice is an online platform that distributes information on vital exhibitions, events, places and influences by art professionals in Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe and beyond who maintain networks and crossovers in the Philippines. Planting Rice is an alternative platform aimed at fostering the rise of cross-pollination among artistic communities. This website generates a resource […] More

Initiated in 1994, the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre aims to offer young curators a condensed package of experiences and skills that can be seen as instruments to enhance the development of their professional career. The ten-month long Curatorial Programme exists in its current form since 2006, with a reshaped curriculum and an […] More

The Art Radar Institute invites applications for the January 2013 intake on the Certificate in Art Journalism & Writing 101 course. Training is conducted entirely online, meaning students can be located anywhere in the world. How’d you like to be out and about interviewing artists and writing about art? Well, this could be you in 2013! We know […] More

The Wasteland Twinning Network (WTN) hijacks the concept of ‘City Twinning’ and applies it to urban wastelands in order to generate a transdisciplinary network for parallel research and action. By subverting the City Twinning concept that aims to parade a city’s more predictable cultural assets and shifting the focus to wastelands, new questions of value […] More

Project grants are available to individuals and organisations of French or Japanese nationality from the Fondation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa. The Foundation’s mission is to “develop cultural relations and friendship between France and Japan”. Examples of projects supported by the Foundation in previous years include theatre exchanges and performances, museum conferences, publications, heritage skills development, documentary film […] More

Arteles Creative Residency Program in Finland is one of the most international creative residency programs in the Arctic area. It invites applications from a wide range of artists and creative professionals for residencies in 2013. Deadline for applications: 31 December 2012 Periods: 1-3 months (June-November 2013) For artists & creative professionals from the fields of […] More

The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation provides grants and scholarships for the exchange between Japan and the Nordic countries. The objectives of the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation are to enhance friendly relations between the five Nordic countries and Japan and to promote exchange between the peoples of the countries concerned, to increase international understanding and to attain peace […] More

In November 2012, a group of curators and visual art professionals from the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland took part in a 13-day Orientation Trip to Indonesia and China. The goal of this intensive international programme of visits and meetings was to extend international networks and contacts, and to stimulate international dialogue between art professionals. […] More

ArtistTalk and MoTA Museum of Transitory Art in Slovenia issue an open call for the ArtistTalk Best Interview of 2012. Researchers, artists, critics are invited to submit and cash prizes will be awarded for the most creative and original interviews. ArtistTalk Culture and Knowledge platform invites you to submit your video recording/s to an international […] More

Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize, awarded annually, seeks to discover talented young writers on contemporary art, with the winner receiving £1000 and the opportunity to publish a review of a contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. Since its founding in 1903, The Burlington Magazine has always considered the art of the present to be […] More

PERCH is an interesting online platform offering Indian Perspectives—Exchanges—Research—Conversations—History on art, design and culture. An initiative by Mumbai-based studio Kahani Designworks, the team of collaborators, writers and observers is committed to building meaningful discourse about the place of art and design in everyday life. PERCH is a resource to document the serious and sometimes not […] More

The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore invites researchers worldwide to apply for research fellowship grants 2013-14 to pursue in depth original study and writing on specialised aspects of Asian culture, supported by the museum’s unique resources and collection. Fellowships are offered in Peranakan material culture, Christianity in Asia (up to 1800), or areas related […] More

Artist collective Llobet & Pons talk about their latest project realised during a residency at Lokaal01, the Dutch-Flemish Space for Contemporary Art, in Antwerp, Belgium. The artist duo took a visual arts research perspective on the diamond industry in the Flemish capital, also known as the capital of the world diamond business. If an unpolished […] More

DANCE BOX residency programme in Kobe region, Japan is seeking applications from artists, scholars and curators who pursue work in the field of dance. Residencies are open to artists who reside outside Japan. The DANCE BOX residency programs are implemented in cooperation with our partners Art Theater dB KOBE, Studio dB Kobe, Studio dB Kobe-loft and Mizuru RB […] More

The culture360.org contributor, Veeranganakumari Solanki interviews Dr. Yongwoo Lee, President of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation which has co-organised the world’s first Biennal Forum this month in Gwangju, South Korea. The event is supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) as part of the programme Creative Encounters: Cultural Partnerships between Asia and Europe. Veeranganakumari Solanki: The Gwangju Biennale […] More

International interdisciplinary symposium on choreography, violence and human rights takes place 14 – 16 December 2012 at Dansens Hus, Stockholm. WEAVING POLITICS addresses choreography as a weaving labor of politics. And by a cobweb of specific languages and disenchanted knowledge engages in a scrutiny of the notions and practices of human rights, and violence. The […] More

The Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands is an international post-academic art institute that offers space to ambitions, plans and work of artists, designers, writers, curators, thinkers. The Jan van Eyck Academie has a long history of recurrent development. Now, once more, the institute finds itself at the crossroads of change, which will be […] More

Artists, researchers and culture professionals coming from countries other than France and wanting to apply for a residency period within a Cultural Centre – Historic Monument in 2013 can send their applications until December 3, 2012. This programme, supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, is aimed at artists, researchers and culture professionals from […] More

Technarte is an international conference on art and technology organised in Bilbao, Spain since 2006. A call for papers for Technarte 2013 is issued. After six editions, Technarte has become one of the most important events of its kind in Europe. The main aim of Technarte is to present technological developments that enhance a broader […] More

My Art Tracker is a comprehensive online collection of information about art market in South East Asia and India. It includes auction results and analyses, artist profiles, artworks, sale prices, market trends and analyses. It also offers a platform for art collectors to maintain their art portfolio online and for event organizers to showcase their art […] More

A limited number of travel grants are available to support the attendance of biennial professionals from emerging and developing countries to the 1st World Biennial Forum in Gwanju, Korea (27-31 October). Grants are restricted to biennial professionals such as biennial directors, permanent staff members and curators, working in emerging and developing economies*. The per-grant amount […] More

Asia Art Archive is seeking a full-time Research Assistant for the Archive’s special project ‘Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990.’ The role is based in Hong Kong and is an exciting opportunity to gain substantial research experience in a dynamic arts organisation at the centre of the region’s contemporary art community […] More

Each year the Asialink Arts Residency Program sends approximately 30 Australian writers, performers, artists and arts managers to undertake residencies in Asia. Applications are open for the 2013 programme, offering flexible models of residency. Since its inception in 1991 the program has sent more than 680 people to host organisations in over 20 countries. The […] More